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Sony is to cut 10,000 jobs in a move that will shed 6 per cent of its
workforce, according to reports.

The electrical goods company is battling to turn around its fortunes after
four years of annual losses. The cuts are expected to be announced on
Thursday at a strategy meeting held by Kazuo Hirai, who took over as chief
executive from Sir Howard Stringer this month.

About half the job cuts are accounted for by the already announced sale of
Sony’s chemicals division, which employed about 3,000, and from the spinning
off of its small liquid-crystal display production to